Dear Candidate, As we our nearing the half way point of the current Mayor's term, a discussion of your campaign fund is in order. Although I realize it is early to declare as a candidate, your fundraising effort should have been netting $1000 a week since the current Mayor took office. This is a rough estimation based on 52 weeks times 4 years times $1000 to arrive at a modest $200,000 war chest. Since the first two years of the term have slid by, we will now have to double our efforts, netting $2000 per week. I am aware with the presidential year 04 upon us, and not wanting to announce when citizen interest in municipal elections is limited, you choose not to declare till January 05. Unfortunately, we then will have only 40 weeks to raise to raise $200,000 or a net $5000 a week. Although, I should be more honest and indicate (in a tight race) we would need to spend the entire $200,000 in the primary, thus our new goal is a net of $6500 per week. Should we prove successful in the primary, another $100,000 would be required, which is a bit of a chore because as we do not have the entire 8 weeks between the primary and general election to fundraise. I would set a goal of 5 weeks maximum to hit our target, a net of $20,000 per week. Once again to be a little more honest the fundraising effort is larger than it appears as we will have to hire professional fundraisers to meet the aggressive targets. I look forward to your campaign.
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